Sentences with phrase «of human appetites»

Minter has long had her finger on the pulse of human appetites, particularly when it comes to beauty and sex, which she taps into in luscious, inescapably close - up paintings, photographs, and slow - motion videos of bare - skinned women and their body parts — often dripping with paint and smeared with mud, gobs of glittering makeup, or sparkling candy.

Playful adventures in materiality and pattern, the works are also explorations of human appetites — both sexual and culinary, according to Robinson, who was editor - in - chief of Artnet magazine from 1996 to 2012.

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There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

Other than Post, only a handful of scientists are working on lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

Marketology, the insatiable appetite of gargantuan MNCs, has no soul to be damned but, driven by Mammon, is commoditizing humans, thereby annihilating democratic accountability and social justice and State undertaking to implement basic human rights.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

When sexuality gets framed as something to repress or feed, something that needs to be reigned in or fanned into flame, we're seeing it as merely an appetite, a set of biological compulsions, and we've lost something fundamentally human about ourselves.

Both I and St Thomas consider that the soul continues to exercise thought and understanding (and indeed will, which is intellectual appetite) after death, and, as St Thomas explains, this can not be in synergism with the imagination in the way it is during human life, but is made possible in ways God provides, and in this way the life of purgatory allows the purification that most people need, while the Saints pray for the living and the dead of whom God gives them knowledge through their vision of Him.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts — the appetitive, spirited, and rational — that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth.

Human beings are more than a bundle of appetites.

The much better looking Grudem, a professor at Phoenix Seminary and past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, had similarly jarred me two years before when, speaking at a fundraising dinner ostensibly focused on the stewardship of creation, he smilingly advocated the extinction of a species to satisfy human appetites.

So he is caught between a rock and a hard place: he can not succeed without fostering in humans that boundless appetite for enchantment that has always made them susceptible to the unscrambled signals of transcendence.

And a genuine appetite for spiritual love also disposes the human person to receive the fullness of the truth, including the truth about the nature of the human person and the normative content of the moral life.

Thank God for them all, of course, and for that strange interval, which was most of my life, when I read out of loneliness, and when bad company was much better than no company You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human, which I devoutly hope you never will have.

After 2 courses of anti biotics, nearly 3 weeks off work and basically zero appetite, I am so ready to feel human again.

There is probably no human activity calculated to add more zest to the appetite than the business of navigating through snow on skis.

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These mythical monsters illustrate the humbling lesson that wild man - eaters enforce with their appetites: Humans, too, are made of meat.

The human appetite for seeds has resulted in new forms of dispersal as well.

During millions of years of evolution, the major concern of humans was not suppressing appetite but hunting, collecting or growing enough food to persist during lean times.

The study, published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics represents an important step in our understanding of how the hypothalamus and oxytocin control appetite and behaviour, says Dr Banka, who is also a Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Saint Mary's Hospital at Manchester.

Other films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.

Professor Gary Frost added: «The major challenge is to develop an approach that will deliver the amount of acetate needed to supress appetite but in a form that is acceptable and safe for humans.

«When humans drink, a lot of times it's in an environment that encourages appetite, so it's at a dinner or a social event like a party,» she said.

In 1998, she discovered that worms showing different foraging behavior expressed different variants of the neuropeptide receptor npr - 1, which is closely related to the human neuropeptide Y receptor family, involved in appetite regulation, obesity, and anxiety.

The human opioid system regulates our appetite and previous research has shown that a dysfunctional opioid system is a major sign of morbid obesity.

In the modern Western world, we are always within 90 seconds» reach of food, and human beings — or any animal species for that matter — have a poor ability to self - regulate appetite.

Sorensen LB, Moller P, Flint A, Martens M, Raben A. Effect of sensory perception of foods on appetite and food intake: a review of studies on humans.

The human body can digest it easily, it's rich in what's known as amino acids (building blocks of life), it can help suppress appetite, and it can be useful for lean muscle mass growth.

Consumption of the slow - digesting waxy maize starch leads to blunted plasma glucose and insulin response but does not influence energy expenditure or appetite in humans.

Veldhorst MAB, Westerterp KR, van Vught AJAH, Westerterp - Plantenga MS. Presence or absence of carbohydrates and the proportion of fat in a high - protein diet affect appetite suppression but not energy expenditure in normal - weight human subjects fed in energy balance.

In this essential guide and cookbook, Drew Ramsey, MD, explores the role the human brain plays in every part of your life, including mood, health, focus, memory, and appetite, and reveals what foods you need to eat to keep your brain — and by extension your body — properly fueled.

In general, what I will say is this — and it's true for the vast majority of human beings — the more nutrient deficient our food, the more powerful and intense will be our appetite.

Critics of the extensive use of high fructose corn syrup in food sweetening argue that the highly processed substance is more harmful to humans than regular sugar, contributing to weight gain by affecting normal appetite functions, and that in some foods, high fructose corn syrup may be a source of mercury, a known neurotoxin.

So, belviq does not target the optimization of other hormones that are required to keep the weight off, like Human growth hormone, dopamine, cortisol etc. and happens to be a mild appetite suppressant.

Human trials have shown that oatmeal, rich in beta - glucans, may increase satiety and reduce appetite when compared to a ready - to - eat breakfast cereal and other types of dietary fiber (13, 14, 79, 80).

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

The key is to really feed yourself and listen to your hunger and your appetite on all levels (physically, emotionally and mentally) instead of objectifying yourself by turning yourself into a human calculator.

Influence of glycemic index / load on glycemic response, appetite, and food intake in healthy humans

It's the kind of storytelling — ebullient, moving, brutal and informed with human mystery — whose every chapter only whets the appetite for more.

But a pack of hungry raccoons arrive to put a stop to the debauchery with their ravenous appetite for human flesh!

Apatow produced Rogen and Goldberg's first forays into screenwriting, but they've gone separate ways, with Apatow clearly preferring to tell conventionally romantic human interest stories and Rogen - Goldberg displaying more of an appetite for genre - infused comedy.

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, explore a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged without consequence.

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, the drama series «Westworld» is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

With unrestricted access to Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign, this film reveals the human story behind the scenes of a high - profile political scandal as it unfolds, and it offers an unfiltered look at how much today's politics are driven by an appetite for spectacle.

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.